The project has benefited from £4.6m from the government’s Broadband Delivery UK scheme on top of the £15.5m invested by Wiltshire Council and £10.8m by BT.

The first village to benefit from this scheme will be Broad Hinton, which is served from Swindon.

Mr Lloyd said: “We’re going to start surveying in Marlborough in the spring when engineers will start looking at the infrastructure and we expect to see services going live on some of the exchange in the Marlborough area towards the back end of the year.

“It’s very difficult for me to say specifically where we are.

"We have an idea of where we want to go, clearly we are in the process of surveying but we should see a large amount of homes passed in Marlborough towards the end of this year and the early part of next year.”

Comments (2)

Have the rollout dates for the Marlborough area slipped by a year? According to Wiltshire Online it was supposed to be "Late 2013". See http://www.wiltshire
online.org/index.php
/broadband-rollout/i
nstallation-map

The other "gotcha" for people in villages around Marlborough is that a significant number have "Exchange-Only" (EO) connections. Ironically, with the older, slower broadband, being closer to the exchange was a benefit. But the new Superfast broadband (at the moment) requires a connection to a BT cabinet. As in the expression, Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC). Unless BT starts installing more cabinets as well, some people will not be able to get any benefit from the Superfast Rollout.

Please could you publicise this e-Gov petition to get EO lines included in the Superfast broadband rollout?
See https://submissions.
epetitions.direct.go
v.uk/petitions/46540
/signature/new

Have the rollout dates for the Marlborough area slipped by a year? According to Wiltshire Online it was supposed to be "Late 2013". See http://www.wiltshire
online.org/index.php
/broadband-rollout/i
nstallation-map
The other "gotcha" for people in villages around Marlborough is that a significant number have "Exchange-Only" (EO) connections. Ironically, with the older, slower broadband, being closer to the exchange was a benefit. But the new Superfast broadband (at the moment) requires a connection to a BT cabinet. As in the expression, Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC). Unless BT starts installing more cabinets as well, some people will not be able to get any benefit from the Superfast Rollout.
Please could you publicise this e-Gov petition to get EO lines included in the Superfast broadband rollout?
See https://submissions.
epetitions.direct.go
v.uk/petitions/46540
/signature/newkeithmacdonald